How To Wiki

just click on or select "Edit this page" from the drop down menu to change the contents of a page

you can format your pages with Wiki Markup, or with HTML (if the wiki has been given that option)

SearchPages or go to the list of NewestPages

there are also lists of the MostVisitedPages, MostOftenChangedPages and recently UpdatedPages

Create Pages:

You create a page by naming it in the text of an existing page. A wiki page is named using
CamelCase or by enclosing it in square brackets ( [] ).

For example:

MyWikiPage (Camel Case)

[My Wiki Page] (enclosed in square brackets)

Text that has been given a wiki page name will have a '?' after it. Clicking on the '?', will
enter edit mode for that page. Enter your text, save and you have a new wiki page.

Wiki Markup:

If you are using the WYSIWYG HTML editor with ordinary word-processor style controls, then you
should use those controls to format your entry. Otherwise (when the edit box is just a normal
text box with no special controls) you can use the following wiki markup.
These features do not apply when using the WYSIWYG editor.

Paragraphs

separate paragraphs inside the text with empty lines

use three percent signs %%% to enforce a line break

if you prepend text with spaces or tabs it will get indented

!! Headlines

use an exclamation mark ! at the beginning of a line to create a small headline

!! for medium

!!! for large headlines

text style

if you want to emphasize text enclose it in two single-quotes '' (usually looks italic)

text gets bold with two underscores __ (or if enclosed with two asterisks **)

to make text big enclose it in hash characters ##

you can get smaller text using "µµ" likewise

a typewrite like font will be used if you enclose text in two equal == signs

Lists

start a line with an asterisk * to begin a list

use # instead for numerated lists

you can create sublists

subsequent list points should start with the same mix of * and #

HyperLinks

just enter a CamelCase WikiWord inside your text to create a new HyperLink

or, enclose some words in square brackets to create a HyperLink

any valid internet address (starting with http://) like http://www.example.com/ inside the text will be made clickable automatically

enclose a www address or a WikiLink inside square brackets [Moodle] and assign it a neat title using quotation marks or the | character

[title | http://example.com]

[WikiWord "title"] or ["title for" WikiLink]

if you don't want a WikiWord or a !http://www-address (or [anything] inside square brackets) to become a HyperLink then just prepend it with a exclamation mark or a tilde

!NoHyperLink, ~NoHyperLink

![no hyperlink], !!http://nolink.org/

Tables with |

just enclose

things with the dash

character

to build a

table structure

browsers usually

leave out the missing

cells

Please always put an empty line before and after a table, so it stands out from other text in its own paragraph.

Pictures

to include an image into a page enclose its absolute www-address in square brackets, like [http://www.example.com/pics/image.png]

alternatively you could use the ImageUploading function

Further readings

There are more possibilities for Wiki mark-up. Please consult the Erfurt Wiki Homepage for more information.

Camel Case:

CamelCase describes what WikiWords look like. Multiple words, joined together without
spaces, separated by changes in case. The uppercase and
lowercase letters show up like the humps of camels.

This linking scheme is often also called BumpyText.

While language purists hate Wikis for that naming scheme, it is very common in the
computing world and well known to most programmers.